My boss went to the 1981 Florida meet and decided that we wouldn't
distribute Quick, we'd go with Insight.

On Mon, 24 Apr 2023, 18:31 Terry Simpkins, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Washington DC was '85
> The '84 conference (the first one I attended) was in Anaheim, CA.
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> Terry W Simpkins
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> Well now I feel a lot younger.  My first HP conference was in Washington.
> Was that 84 or 85?  Ah crap, turning 70 on Saturday, so much for younger
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> Good one. I obviously mistyped the first date. I blame advancing age.
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> Good one.  I obviously mistyped the first date.  I blame advancing age.
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> Must have been a 7-year itch to cause that kind of postponement.
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> Worse than COVID to get from 1983 to 1989.
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> On 4/24/23 12:16, Denys Beauchemin wrote:
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> > Hello HP3000-L,
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> > 40 years ago today, on March 24, 1989, I opened the 1983 HP3000 IUG
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> > Conference in Montréal, Canada.  The conference was held at the Queen
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> > Elizabeth Hotel and the adjoining Sheraton Center and ran from the 24
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> > The opening get together was held at the QE hotel on Sunday, 24th
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> > April and was hosted by Hewlett Packard.
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> > On Tuesday evening, we bused the participants to a sugaring-off party
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> > On Wednesday, the keynote address was delivered by Dr. Isaac Asimov.
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> > On Thursday evening, the conference banquet was held at the Olympic
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> > The participants went by Metra to the stadium using tickets that we
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> > printed for the occasion.  I believe this was the first time the Metro
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> > system accepted tickets that were printed for the occasion by the event
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> > The vendor Exhibit was in the QE hotel. It was MUCH smaller in those
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> > early days.
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> > We produced a swap type on site, in the hastily assembled computer
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> > room in one of the conference rooms of the hotel, in which we rolled
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> > in an HP3000 Series 33, with printer and tape drive.
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> > The technical sessions were held at QE convention level, with overflow
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> > sessions at the adjoining Sheraton.
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> > The conference committee:
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> > Myself as conference chair.
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> > Myer Kwavnick as vice-chair.
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> > Jim “Fairch” Fairchild as conference manager.
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> > Hank Van Leeuwen – Technical papers chair
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> > Helene Quimper – Vendors Exhibits
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> > Linda Black – Computer System Manager
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> > Sandi Kwavnick – Publications
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> > Eric Billington – Audio-Visual
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> > Henri Koelblen – Special Events
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> > Madeleine Paradis – Special Events
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> > Anscar Mantel – Security
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> > Gerry Johnson – Swap tape
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> > Lana Farmery – IUG BoD liaison
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> > After decades of moves and storage, all I have left of this event are
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> > a cube, a few badges, and a copy of the conference guide.
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> > Denys
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